6 4 That ye way be able tofland forrowes ; none fo skilful in applying the comforts of the Word to wounded confciences, as thole who have layen bleeding themfelves ; fuch know the fymptomes offoul-troubles, and feel others pains in their own boromes, which fome that know the Scriptures, (for lack of experience) do not, and therefore are like a novice Phyfician la,ho perhaps can tell you every plant in the Herbal, yet wanting the praaick part , when a Patient comes, knowes not well how tomake ufe of his skill : The Saints experiences help them to a foveraign treacle made of the Scor- pions own flefh, (which they through Chrift have flain ) and that hath a vertue above all other to expel the venome of Satans temptations from the heart. SECT. III. Thirdly, Satan in tempting the Saint to fin, labours to make a. breach between God and the foule. He hates both, and there- fore labours, todivide thefe dear friends. TI I can (thinks he) get Inch a one to fin, God will beangry, and when angry he'll whiphis childe foundly, this will be forne (port, and when God is corrthing the Saint, he'll be queftioning the love of God to him, and cooles in his love to God ; fo though I fhould not keep him from heaven at Taff, yet he than have little joy thither in the way. In this cafe God and the foul will be Eke man, and wife fallen out, who neither of them lo k kindly one upon another. Now fee how God befooles Satan in both thefe. Firff, God Ufeth his Saints temptations, as his method by which he advanceth the communications of his love unto therm Thedevil thought he had got the goale, when he got 1dana to care the forbidden fruit, he thought now he had man in the fame predicament with himlelf, as unlikely ever to fee the face of, God, as thote Apollate fpirits ; but (alas!) this was by God in tended to ufher in that great Golpel-plot of laving man by Chrift, who (affoon as this Prologue of mans fall is done) is brought upon the ffage in that grand Prornife of the Golpel made to avidam, and at gods command undertakes the charge of recovering loft man out of Satans clutches, and re-inflatinghim in
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